Shayna Baszler Quotes

It's MMA. I'm a complete MMA fighter. I expect everything. I'm ready for all of it.

I'm a catch wrestler, so I used catch wrestling in Mixed Martial Arts.

I'm very well-rounded. It's mixed martial arts.

MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.

I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.

When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

The MMA stuff has been really good, I'm enjoying that. To be able to work with Jay Glazer, he's a total meathead, he loves all that stuff. I hit him as hard as I can and he's like 'Yeah!' It's been fun for me to release that anger without putting pads on.

With Carlson Gracie, who saw something in me, I started learning and loved mixing together the martial arts.

Growing up, I was always a fan of wrestling, but I was also a fan of MMA and stuff.

I don't classify myself as a wrestler, I'm a grappler.

You can have the best college wrestling in the world, but you can have terrible MMA wrestling.

My MMA background, I think, only enhances my experience on 'Tough Enough' or in the WWE in general.

Most other schools train no-gi part time, or maybe even half the time. We train no-gi all the time.

My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.

Everybody knows where I come from and how my jiu-jitsu is, training at Macaco Gold Team, but I also work on my striking at Chute Boxe Diego Lima, so I'm prepared on the feet and on the ground.

I'll fight anyone the UFC wants me to beat and defeat them.

Nobody wants to be trapped inside that cage me. They don't want to be cut by my elbows, they don't want to get hit by any of my kicks and they don't want their conditioning checked by me.

This is mixed martial arts, so you have to be good at everything.

I'm a vale-tudo fighter.

I want to be eventually be the best wrestler out there, be the best grappler out there, along with being the best striker - be all of them at one time.

I like to fight on the ground. I'm learning every day. I think I'm good.

I've got to become 'The ultimate Ultimate Fighter.'

I'm a huge UFC fan. I train. I do jiu-jitsu, taekwondo.